from the series ‘Eggs and Rarities’, 2018 - Paul Kooiker
about this work
This diptych edition is published in the context of Paul Kooiker’s new book Eggs and Rarities. This series was created especially for Kooiker’s recent solo exhibition at FOMU, Antwerp. Curator Joachim Naudts writes “… Paul Kooiker’s Encyclopaedia of Life in 164 images. This ambitious but utopian project reads like a sampler of photographic genres: landscape, nude, still life, etc. To achieve this, Kooiker often uses clichés more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media. Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work. Intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective approach so that public and private space spill over into each other. The result is one large work in which the complexity of things converge: the artist himself, the medium of photography, life and death.”
Each diptych comes with a copy of Eggs and Rarities, published by ArtPaperEditions.